Jurassic Park

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Michael Crichton (Novel), Michael Crichton and David Koepp (Screenplay)

PG-13

Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller

The Universal Pictures logo is shown as they own the rights to the film and they own the brand of Jurassic Park.

Non-diegetic drum beats followed by a deep choral crescendo, it sounds almost like ritual music and gives a very powerful feel to the beginning of this scene. The deep vocals then transition into a sound bridge of rustling; the scene then cuts to a shot of an unknown object pushing its way through the trees causing them to part with the force its coming through. This creates

tension as it the audience doesn't know what is coming through the trees, it could be a dinosaur and all the people standing around are about to die.

The lighting is very dark, obviously shot at night time, the location is also somewhere deep in the jungle which makes the setting very mysterious. It puts the audience on the edge of their seat as danger could be lurking anywhere in the dark. The low key lighting casts shadows, which is because there are few lights at location but enough to light up the scene so you can see the actors faces. The darkness of the scene and the setting creates tension as anything could be hiding in the woods or shadows waiting to be attacked. 

A point of view shot is used when in this extract and when a growl is heard. It's made known that this shot is supposed to be seen through eyes that are not human and the growl suggests a creature that is aggravated and possibly dangerous. The fact that we can only see the humans through a small rectangle shows us that we are looking through the eyes of the creature in the box. Guns are also visible in this shot which emphasise the danger of the creature in the box.

On screen titles

Universal Pictures Presents

An Amblin Entertainment Production

JURASSIC PARK

The font and colour of the title is an orange and red futuristic type font, the dirty orange colour could symbolise dirt and the production team might have used this font because it could be symbolic of big dinosaur foot brinks in mud, and the red could possibly foreshadowing some danger that while occur during the film. The Font is big and bold and is placed at the centre of the screen. All these aspects cause the audience to pay attention to it.